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Hey, I created this thread to get your feedback on our blog post around changes to the Web API extended access criteria, which will take place on May 15th. Please share any of your thoughts on this change in the comments below. All of your feedback w...
PlanFreeCountryCosta Rica but it is affecting worldwideDeviceAllOperating SystemWindows, Android to the extent I could check My Question or IssueTrying to embed my playlist in a widget on wordpresshttps://open.spotify.com/user/nb9zbd3num3x193bey7azzi...
Plan Free Country Costa Rica but it is affecting worldwide Device All Operating System Windows, Android to the extent I could check My Question or Issue Trying to embed my playl...
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Hi, I'm currently developing an app which in home it displays all the artist that I follow and for each of them I display their latest track. The problem is that to do this I need to invoke http://api.spotify.com/v1/me/following?type=artist until I r...
Hi, I'm currently developing an app which in home it displays all the artist that I follow and for each of them I display their latest track. The problem is that to do this I need to invoke&nb...
Music Fan
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PlanPremiumCountryFRDeviceAPI from computer My Question or IssueAPI was working fine for searching songs but since a couple of hours, this gives an Error 500 Server Error. Note that when parameter 'artist' is given, it works. But when looking for 'tr...
Plan Premium Country FR Device API from computer My Question or Issue API was working fine for searching songs but since a couple of hours, this gives an Error 500 Server Error. ...
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My Question or Issue It should be possible to change/restore the url from your playlist. Not to put the url you want, but restore it to another random one. Thanks.
My Question or Issue It should be possible to change/restore the url from your playlist. Not to put the url you want, but restore it to another random one. Thanks.
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Hello there !I'm a JS developer and I just get familiar with the spotify API.My application is working fine, I made a nodeJs server for authentication and a little Svelte App to display some data !I was expecting the spotify dashboard page to display...
Hello there ! I'm a JS developer and I just get familiar with the spotify API. My application is working fine, I made a nodeJs server for authentication and a little Svelte App to display some data...
Casual Listener
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I've just started working with the API, and I noticed playlists have the following "primary_color" field. While I haven't launched a full investigation, cursory searches of this community, the API docs, and the internet at large and haven't found any...
I've just started working with the API, and I noticed playlists have the following "primary_color" field. While I haven't launched a full investigation, cursory searches of this community, the API do...
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Hello, How do we get approval to add content on a personal site from spotify.com using your API? I have this site eabreath.com and need to add musics content from spotify.co web site. Please advise. Thank you for your assistance, Regards.
Hello, How do we get approval to add content on a personal site from spotify.com using your API? I have this site eabreath.com and need to add musics content from spotify.co web ...
Casual Listener
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Hi all. I have a question related to extending the recently-played endpoint in the spotify api. When creating experiences online for specific acts, it would be useful to specify artists in the api, so rather than return the last 50 tracks it would re...
Hi all. I have a question related to extending the recently-played endpoint in the spotify api. When creating experiences online for specific acts, it would be useful to specify artists in the api, s...
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Hi Spotify Developer forum, I'm the founder of a Danish app named Queue. Queue uses the Spotify API to enable Queue users to register with Queue using their existing Spotify account and then to add their favorite Spotify-songs to a collaborative part...
Hi Spotify Developer forum, I'm the founder of a Danish app named Queue. Queue uses the Spotify API to enable Queue users to register with Queue using their existing Spotify account and...
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Hello everyone, I have got one question when implementing the Authorization Code Flow. Once the user authorize access to an Application and the app use the request token to web api to get user data like in the example bellow: { "display_name":"JMWizz...
Hello everyone, I have got one question when implementing the Authorization Code Flow. Once the user authorize access to an Application and the app use the...
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Hi, for my class I am trying to create an application in which a group of people can collaborate on a playlist and then export that playlist to Spotify. One of the reasons we thought of this idea is to have it so people without a Spotify account can ...
Hi, for my class I am trying to create an application in which a group of people can collaborate on a playlist and then export that playlist to Spotify. One of the reasons we thought of this id...
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Hello, I'm developing an app that allows the user to play songs from Spotify and share the queue with other users. The problem is that usign Spotify app remote sdk on iOS i'm not able to keep the app running on the background, the only solution is to...
Hello, I'm developing an app that allows the user to play songs from Spotify and share the queue with other users. The problem is that usign Spotify app remote sdk on iOS i'm not able to keep the app...
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Operating System: 10.15.7App ver 1.1.44.538.g8057de92 Spotify should handle percent-encoded URLs /URIs such asspotify:track%3A1BncfTJAWxrsxyT9culBrjthe %3A == colon (:) so, equivalent is :spotify:track:1BncfTJAWxrsxyT9culBrj I have apps on my system ...
Operating System: 10.15.7 App ver 1.1.44.538.g8057de92 Spotify should handle percent-encoded URLs /URIs such as spotify:track%3A1BncfTJAWxrsxyT9culBrj the %3A == colon (:) so, equivalent ...
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PlanFreeCountryUnited StatesOperating SystemAndroid My Question or IssueI'm trying to develop an Android app that allows you to create a playlist and add tracks. I am currently using the Kaaes Spotify Web API wrapper for Android since it seems like t...
Plan Free Country United States Operating System Android My Question or Issue I'm trying to develop an Android app that allows you to create a playlist and add tracks. I am cur...
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Hello, I want to use a spotify API for a class project, but the class requires me to use C++. Is this possible to do?
Hello, I want to use a spotify API for a class project, but the class requires me to use C++. Is this possible to do?
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PlanPremium FamilyCountryUSA Devices(Iphones, Windows PC, Sonos, Apple PC, Amazon Alexa, etc. Operating SystemALL My Question or IssueSo, I'm having a problem when I'm playing music in my office and my kids want to play music on our Alexa in the livi...
Plan Premium Family Country USA Devices (Iphones, Windows PC, Sonos, Apple PC, Amazon Alexa, etc. Operating System ALL My Question or Issue So, I'm having a p...
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I would like to request an API endpoint that allows you to submit an ID (or multiple IDs) and returns what type of object (eg. Album, Track, Playlist, etc) that ID refers to. As far as I'm aware this is not currently possible, and it would help me bu...
I would like to request an API endpoint that allows you to submit an ID (or multiple IDs) and returns what type of object (eg. Album, Track, Playlist, etc) that ID refers to. As far as I'm aware this...
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PlanPremiumCountryUSA While going through my history and saved lists I found many instances where song have multiple ids associated even if they are from the same album and artist. For example:7oK9VyNzrYvRFo7nQEYkWN Mr. Brightside Hot Fuss003vvx7Niy0...
Plan Premium Country USA While going through my history and saved lists I found many instances where song have multiple ids associated even if they are from the same album and art...
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Are all browsers on Android or iOS NOT supported by your Web Playback SDK ?
Are all browsers on Android or iOS NOT supported by your Web Playback SDK ? 😞
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Hi there,I'm building my Tiktok-like SDK, which I sell as a company. We do a video editing SDK, basically, so I'm interested if it is possible to use Spotify songs for that. If so, who can I talk to discuss commercial questions?
Hi there, I'm building my Tiktok-like SDK, which I sell as a company. We do a video editing SDK, basically, so I'm interested if it is possible to use Spotify songs for that. If so, who can I talk...
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